Interior. Leather Bar. (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #31.1 extract: Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)

Interior. Leather Bar. is such an ingenious film. It assumes the forms and philosophies of many reflexive filmmakers (Godard especially), but brings character, fallibility, dimension and honesty to its questioning. In such, this docu-drama is about a group of gay people attempting to represent themselves by re-representing an older film, but lead by, and in cooperation with, many heterosexual filmmakers - James Franco for instance. All of the absurdity and stupidity that is attached to this results in a constant questioning of: Why? Why are they trying to make this film? Why are we watching it? What on earth is going on? 

These questions produce no simple answer, rather give incite into the minds of archetypal characters: this is a character study of many contemporary personas. For the manner in which this is constructed, I still have to say that this is a masterpiece that everyone (no matter how squeamish - and as long as you are not a child) should try to see.